Religious imaginations in embroidered craft art

The Art and Craft of Hacking

"Hackers" are identified as software developers sharing a specific work practice. The process of hacking and the characteristics of the resulting artifacts are discussed. Some research questions following from these findings are posed.

religious art

to understand religion, spiritual man , and his inside world , requires true recognition of human culture and civilization, religious civilization in particular , which are rooted in his history and religious beliefs. the objective of this paper is to determine what is meant by religious art. should any art attributed to as religious be considered as sacred and devine? obtaining answers to such...

Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between Design, Craft and Art

The title for this special issue takes its starting point from Choderlos de Laclos’ novel depicting the machinations, seduction and jealousies of a ménage a trois, a fitting analogy for the complex matrices of the affinities between design, craft and art over the last two hundred years. Drawing on our analogy, design, craft and art can be seen to occupy an unstable territory of permanently shif...

Remix : The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization

education. Remix means to take cultural artifacts and combine and manipulate them into new kinds of creative blends. Until recently, it mainly referred to using audio-editing techniques to produce “an alternative mix of a recorded song that differed from the original...taking apart the various instruments and components that make up a recording and remixing them into something that sounds compl...

Viewpoints: Art and Architecture as Locus for Dialogue: Inter-Religious Dialogue Through Art